October 7th, 2020 by madgett | Comments Off on EZproxy Down for Maintenance – Oct. 8th, 10:00 am PDT
EZproxy, used to authenticate Users into Library resources from off campus, will be down for maintenance Thursday,
October 8th, at 10:00 a.m. PDT for 30 minutes. If you run into access problems outside of that window in time, please
report it to us via out Help Form.
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September 30th, 2020 by madgett | Comments Off on UBC Library Catalogue Down for Maintenance -Sept. 30, 10PM

UPDATE – No problems reported.
FYI
The UBC Library Catalogue will be down for maintenance from 10:00pm PDT for 90 minutes.
Our Discovery Service, Summon, will continue working except for any links leading to the Catalogue.
Please report any problems via our Help Form.
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November 20th, 2019 by madgett | Comments Off on EZproxy Interruption November 21 : Off-Campus log-in

Possible Off-Campus Access Interruptions November 21st
On November 21st, around 10:00 p.m. PST, the Off-Campus EZproxy Authentication system will be offline for about 10-15 minutes. This means Users authenticating from off campus to Library resources may lose access unexpectedly for a short period.
If you can’t log in to a resource or suddenly lose access to a resource, please try again after a few minutes.
If problems persist, contact us via our Help Form, and we will investigate.
Posted in CWL, E-Resources & Access News, eResources Blog, EZ proxy, EZproxy, Off-Campus Access, UBC Maintenance | Comments Off on EZproxy Interruption November 21 : Off-Campus log-in
September 29th, 2017 by madgett | Comments Off on Catalogue will be down Saturday Night (for 2 hours)
Just a heads up…
Due to systems maintenance, the public facing Library Catalogue will be unavailable for 2 hours (10:00 pm – midnight) on Saturday, September 30th. UBC IT notice here.
Our Summon Discovery Service will be not be disrupted. So, you will be able to search for online resources.
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January 9th, 2014 by madgett | Comments Off on LIBRARY WEBSITES OUTAGE: May include our link resolver UBC eLink
LIBRARY WEBSITES OUTAGE
Due to some server moves, several Library websites and services will be disrupted starting at 10 p.m. Tuesday, January 14; services are expected to resume by 1 a.m. on Wednesday, January 15.
These may include:
- Library website and related services (www.library.ubc.ca)
- Indexes and databases portal
- Link resolver service

Sorry for the inconvenience.
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August 29th, 2012 by madgett | Comments Off on Short Loss of Wireless Network: August 29th 4:00pm
This just in…
UBC IT will be doing maintenance on the wireless network. This will result in a short outage across all wireless networks of approximately 5 minutes duration between 4:00 – 4:30PM. This is to address issues connecting to UBC secure. Please see UBC IT bulletins for the more recent updates.
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August 22nd, 2012 by madgett | Comments Off on UBC Wireless Networks Down for Maintenance: Saturday, August 25
Hello, this Saturday UBC IT will be working on the wireless networks. Please read their Bulletin.
Briefly:
- On Saturday August 25, 2012 UBC wireless services at all UBC facilities may sporadically be unavailable from 10:00 to 16:00 PT due to infrastructure maintenance and upgrades. During this window, there will be periodic outages to the wireless network at the following locations.
- All wireless networks at these facilities:
- UBC Vancouver Main Campus
- UBC Vancouver South Campus
- UBC Robson Square – Downtown Campus
- UBC Learning Exchange – Downtown Eastside UBC Dairy Research & Education Ctr – Agassiz
- ubcprivate, ubcvisitor and eduroam ONLY at UBC Okanagan
- ubcsecure ONLY at these facilities Vancouver Coastal Health managed facilities, St Paul’s Hospital, Children and Women’s Hospital.
- CFRI at Children’s Hospital
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May 28th, 2012 by madgett | Comments Off on EZproxy Outage Later Today (May 28th): Upgrade
**UPDATE: All went well last night. No reported problems. (knock on wood)**
Just a heads up that EZproxy (which many people use for off-campus access to Library resources) will be down at 6:00 pm today for an upgrade. Down-time expected to be brief. If you experience EZproxy problems after, say, 6:30 pm, please report them to our Help Form. Thanks!
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February 13th, 2012 by madgett | Comments Off on CWL Maintenance – Saturday Feb 18th
This Saturday, February 18th., the CWL (Campus-Wide Login) server will be undergoing maintenance from 8:30 a.m to 4:00 p.m. and DOWN from 11:00 – 11:15 a.m.
Read all about it here.
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January 23rd, 2012 by madgett | Comments Off on EZproxy Upgrade on Wednesday, January 25th: Down 5:00 – 7:00pm
EZproxy will be down from 5:00pm to 7:00pm on this Wednesday (January 25th.).
What does that mean?
- For off-campus access you will need to set up and use myVPN
- For resources that must use EZproxy (like ebrary, eBook Library and MyiLibrary), there will be no access till after 7:00 pm.
Sorry for the temporary inconvenience.
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